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Goebbels: Select ONE enemy. Blaim everything on that enemy. Never say anything good about your enemy. Accuse the enemy of that which you are guilty. Alberta: Ottawa is our enemy. Everything wrong is Ottawa’s fault. Ottawa has always hated Alberta. Ottawa is responsible for us not being the world’s richest people. Propaganda is NOT reality. Propaganda is programming. Maybe if our leaders gave up on bullshit, we could move forward. But they’ll deny that, then attack me for being a crazy, commie loon. They’re soooooo predictable. We’re so screwed.

Again, Legislative committee again asked that I, the proponent of the #ForeverCanadian petition, appear before the committee to answer any questions that the Premier or committee may have. UCP MLAs voted against me appearing and testifying again. What are they scared of? #ableg

Brendan Fraser walked out of a Hollywood luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2003, past a police officer in the lobby, and could not bring himself to say what had just happened to him. He went home and told his wife. He stayed quiet about it for fifteen years. The man who had groped him in that room was the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that ran the Golden Globes. In the years after, Fraser sank into depression, watched the work dry up, and wondered if the silence that followed was a coincidence. His body had its own bill coming. Fraser did most of his own stunts across three Mummy films. By the third one in 2008, he told GQ he was "put together with tape and ice." The surgeries that followed kept him in and out of hospitals for roughly seven years, including back operations, a partial knee replacement, and vocal cord repair. His divorce became final in 2009. A judge ordered him to pay 900,000 dollars a year in alimony plus another 300,000 in child support. By 2013 he was back in court asking to reduce the payments because he no longer earned enough. In November 2016, his mother died of cancer in Seattle after several years of treatment. His eldest son is autistic. Almost none of it made the news. In September 2022, his film The Whale premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The audience clapped for six minutes. Fraser sobbed on the balcony and tried to leave at one point, but the clapping wouldn't stop. In March 2023, at 54, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He thanked his three sons by name. The last years, he said, had felt like "a diving expedition on the bottom of the ocean," and his sons had been the ones holding the air line. Last week, he sat on Jimmy Fallon's couch and said he is training to play Rick O'Connell again. "I'm doing my best to get this 57-year-old gear in shape," he told Fallon. Universal has Mummy 4 penciled in for October 2027. He first played the character at 30, and he'll be 58 when the new one comes out.

It is great to hear today from Justice Brown (Supreme Court of Canada) and Chief Electoral Commissioner that the #ForeverCanadian petition is not calling for a referendum, but a vote at Legislature. Also, glad Elections Alberta re-confirmed that all signatures were valid. #ableg

HE SAID NO TO MILLIONS. 💰🚫 The legacy of Thor Vikström. For 50 years, developers hounded this 93-year-old Quebecer with massive offers to buy his 7-acre island, ile Ronde. They wanted luxury high-rises and bridges. 🏗️ Thor's response? He donated the entire island for FREE to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. 💚 Why? Because the island is home to the rare Northern Map Turtle and ancient Shagbark Hickory trees.🌳 🐢 Quote: "Nature was more important than some stupid money in my pocket." 🇨🇦 Let's thank Thor for having protected one of Canada's "natural jewels" for our grandkids! 🙏 #Canada #Conservation

When Government Protects Itself First Last week, Elections Alberta confirmed something deeply disturbing. The provincial list of electors — personal information tied to nearly 3 million Albertans — was exploited without authorization. Now the RCMP are involved with yet another tie to this government. This is not just a breach of privacy — it’s a dereliction of duty. Government dismissed the warnings, changed the law and UCP staff participated in the disclosure. When a government works this hard to keep information hidden — it’s not transparency they’re protecting — it’s themselves. Control without accountability. Power without consequence. This is NOT a conservative government. Conservatives believe in stewardship and accountability – protecting the public. This is a government that protects itself first… refuses to investigate suspect dealings… won’t even listen to its own institutions. This is much bigger than one breach — it’s about trust in our democracy. And there must be consequences. #alberta #abpoli #ableg #albertatory #abtory

Los Angeles, 1946. Maureen O'Hara stood before an immigration clerk, holding papers that would make her an American citizen. She’d passed every requirement. The exam was finished. The process complete. All that remained was a signature. Then she looked down at the documents spread across the desk. Everywhere she had written “Irish” had been crossed out. Her nationality. Her heritage. Her identity. Gone. In another hand, one chilling word had been inserted instead: “English.” Again and again. Irish erased. English inserted. The woman who fought pirates onscreen and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with John Wayne felt something fierce rise inside her chest. “I’m terribly sorry,” she said, her Dublin accent cutting through the cold air of the Los Angeles immigration court, “but I can’t forswear an allegiance I don’t have. I have no allegiance to England at all—I’m Irish.” The clerk stared back, confused and irritated. This wasn’t how these meetings were supposed to go. Maureen FitzSimons had been born in Ranelagh, Dublin, on August 17, 1920. She came to America as a teenager after Charles Laughton spotted something extraordinary in her screen test. He persuaded her to shorten her surname, offering O’Hara or O’Mara. She chose O’Hara. But she never chose to stop being Irish. By 1946, Hollywood knew her as the fiery Queen of Technicolor. A woman who performed her own stunts and refused to be reduced to decoration. But the American immigration system saw only one thing: a British subject. The reasoning was painfully simple. Ireland had still been tied to the United Kingdom when she was born. Even after the Irish Free State emerged, much of the world—including the United States—continued classifying Irish citizens as British subjects. To Maureen, it wasn’t paperwork. It was erasure. The clerk sent her before an immigration judge, certain he would settle the matter. The judge repeated what the records said. Washington considered her English. Her papers would reflect it. Maureen stood her ground. “I cannot accept American citizenship under those circumstances,” she said. Washington was contacted for confirmation. The answer returned unchanged: English. “Your Honor,” she replied, calm but blazing, “I’m not responsible for your antiquated records in Washington. Thank you very much, but I cannot accept citizenship under those conditions.” She turned toward the door. She would rather leave without citizenship than sign her name beneath a lie. Then she stopped and faced the courtroom one last time. “Do you realize what you’re trying to do to my children and grandchildren?” she asked. “You’re trying to take away their right to boast about their wonderful Irish mother and grandmother.” The judge threw up his hands in defeat. “Give her anything she wants on her papers,” he snapped. Maureen walked out with documents finally marked Irish. And from that day forward, thousands of immigrants would no longer have their identity erased by the word “British.” Because one woman refused to let the world decide who she was.

“Billionaires already pay more taxes than you ever will” is one of the most financially illiterate arguments on this app because it confuses nominal dollars with effective burden. A billionaire paying $500M in taxes sounds enormous until you remember they gained $20B in asset value while doing it. The relevant metric is percentage, not raw dollars. A teacher paying 22% of a $60k salary is carrying a heavier proportional burden than someone paying 8% while their wealth compounds tax-deferred through stock appreciation. And this “their money was already taxed” line is mostly fiction at billionaire scale. Middle-class wealth is usually income that got taxed, then saved. Billionaire wealth is overwhelmingly unrealized appreciation. Tesla stock going vertical did not mean Elon “earned” $100B in taxable salary. The shares appreciated. Under current law, that appreciation can sit untaxed for decades, get borrowed against for liquidity, then receive stepped-up basis treatment at death that can erase the embedded gains entirely. That is not “double taxation.” In many cases it is functionally zero taxation on the primary mechanism of wealth accumulation. People also weirdly talk about billionaires like they emerged from the forest carrying capitalism on their backs with no public inputs involved. Their companies rely on: public roads public courts public contract enforcement public utilities public universities public research grants public internet infrastructure public IP law public military-protected trade routes public education systems producing labor The modern corporation is not built in isolation. It operates inside an enormous state-supported framework. And no, asking whether someone should contribute proportionally to maintaining the system that enabled $100B fortunes is not “greed.” That framing is emotional theater designed to avoid discussing the actual structure of tax law. The real debate is simple: Should labor income be taxed continuously while massive asset appreciation can compound largely untouched for generations? That’s the argument. Everything else is distraction.

The reason to come and make your film in England is that you’ll have available a stock of professional Shakespearean actors who will throw 100% into whatever goofy Flash Gordon knock off you give them, and turn it into cinematic gold.

I’ve been watching something creep into Canadian political discourse and it’s starting to feel urgent enough to name. The conspiracy brain that we used to associate with American right-wing media has crossed the border, and it’s made itself completely at home. Trudeau was a WEF puppet implementing a globalist agenda. The trucker convoy was being surveilled by a secret government network. The carbon tax was never about the environment, it was about control. Fifteen-minute cities are a UN plot to trap you in your neighbourhood. Bill Gates is poisoning the food supply. And Mark Carney, who has barely been in office five minutes, is apparently already the architect of a decades-long scheme to hand Canadian sovereignty to unelected global elites. This is the daily content diet of a growing slice of the Canadian right. And it’s not just anonymous accounts. It’s coming from politicians. It’s coming from media figures with large platforms. It’s being repeated at kitchen tables in Alberta and Saskatchewan like it’s common sense. What makes it particularly frustrating in a Canadian context is that there are real things to be angry about. Housing is genuinely broken. The cost of living has genuinely hammered working people. Western alienation is a real and legitimate political grievance with decades of history behind it. You don’t have to invent a globalist cabal to explain why a lot of Canadians feel like the system isn’t working for them. But the conspiracy framework doesn’t want real problems. Real problems have complicated causes and require hard tradeoffs and might implicate your own side. A shadowy global elite pulling strings is so much cleaner. So much more satisfying. The people selling this stuff in Canada aren’t martyrs or truth-tellers. They’re building audiences. They’re raising money. They’re running for office on the back of your outrage. And every time a real policy debate gets swallowed by another theory about Davos or the WHO or 5G towers, the people with actual power over your life get to operate with a little less scrutiny. Canada deserves a serious right-wing opposition. One that argues about tax policy and resource development and federal overreach with evidence and good faith. What we’re getting instead is an import from the American culture war, poorly translated and applied to a country it barely fits. We can do better than this. We used to.

Stuart Skinner is expected to be among the Ottawa Senators’ top targets in free agency this offseason. Per, Bruce Garrioch.

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Michael Pennington, who played Moff Jerjerrod in Return of the Jedi, has sadly passed away at the age of 83. May the Force be with you, always.

Just in case there’s any doubt that the separatists are colluding with MAGA Americans and that their ultimate goal is to turn Alberta into the 51st state in Donald Trump’s America … take a look at these posts from Parker and Rath. They’re saying the quiet part out loud.

Word has reached us that Michael Pennington, who played Moff Jerjerrod passed away today.

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Call me old-fashioned, but I preferred society when people weren't openly proud of their racism and bigotry. Hate is not a badge of honour.

Josh Samanski ready to rep Team Germany at the Worlds 🇩🇪 📸: @deb_teams

На Гаваях американский миллионер кинул булыжник в тюленя-монаха, их осталось всего 1500 особей. Он сказал "Мне плевать, выпишите штраф, любой оплачу". После чего был избит местным активистом, и срочно покинул остров. Власти острова дали активисту награду 😀